Famous Orient Express train makes stop in Bucharest on its way to Istanbul
The most famous train in Europe, the Orient Express, will arrive on Monday (September 3 ) in Bucharest, part of its Paris – Istanbul yearly route. The train also stopped at Sinaia, where travelers visited the Peles castle. Its next stop will be Varna, Bulgaria.
The Orient Express, the train which connected Europe's West to its East 125 years ago, will be back from Istanbul on September 8, when it will stop in Bucharest again at the Gara de Nord Station, with a five-hour stop in Sinaia.
The Orient Express is run by the firm Venice Simplon Orient Express, which has been organizing yearly trips on the route Paris – Vienna- Budapest – Sinaia- Bucharest- Varna- Istanbul and returning to Vienna and Venice since 2000. The cost of a trip from Paris to Istanbul is of EUR 7,400 per person.
The original Orient Express was launched in October 1883, leaving from Paris, it steamed through the Alps, Budapest and Bucharest to Constantinople (Istanbul). The train carried kings, celebrities and shady characters between great European cities up until its 1920s heyday. In May 1982 the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express made its first run from London to Venice.
The train inspired several books and films, including Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express'. Christie was a regular passenger on the train. Other books and films that feature the Orient Express include Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, the James Bond thriller From Russia with Love and Graham Greene’s classic Stamboul Train.
More about the train here.
(photo source: Venice Simplon Orient Express)
